I think Jeff's got it about right. Either would be more fitting for Ron than Sayles (even though I love Sayles' movies).

Kurosawa, according to film historian Donald Richie, was the first director to point his camera upwards and do a tracking shot of the sun through the trees (this is in Kurosawa's beyond-words incredibly brilliant Rashomon). That, to me, has Ron written all over it--pointing folks in a direction that they hadn't really seen clearly before. [Incidentally, you can see the heavy influence of Kurosawa's famous upward tracking shot in Terence Malick's visually beautiful The Thin Red Line]

Godard's a great choice too. Given his famed commitment to "make it new," Godard was once asked something to this effect, "But surely you would agree that all films have to have a beginning a middle and an end, n'est ce pas?" To which Godard gnomically replied, "Of course! But not necessarily in that order!" That too strikes me as echt/i] Ron."

Cheers,

Eric

P.S. Ron et al, does it ever embarrass you all to have folks talk about you in this way? Or does it "creep you out" (to use a phrase my daughter is fond of)?